Can't leave image description empty

Yatharth_Agarwal · November 12, 2016, 10:17pm

Steps to reproduce

Create item with raw content ![](https://dynalist.io/favicon.ico)

Expected result

Image renders.

Actual result

Image doesn’t under unless the ‘image description’ (i.e., the stuff between the square brackets) is non-empty.

Environment

Web app on OS X

Rationale

There’s no technical reason why image descriptions should be required.
This forum, as one of many examples, doesn’t require image descriptions.

Erica · November 12, 2016, 10:42pm

Can confirm. I think it’s something with our Markdown parsing algorithm.

@Shida should the person to take a look at this.

Shida · November 13, 2016, 6:39am

Will fix right away!

Is it ok if we show a default “Image” text? Otherwise the box would be empty and look really weird.

Yatharth_Agarwal · November 13, 2016, 3:10pm

Do you mean changing (a) changing the raw content of our items to read ![Image](https://dynalist.io/favicon.ico) or (b) leaving the raw content as is but using “Image” as the fallback description if the user-supplied description is empty?

IMO (b) is preferable.

Shida · November 13, 2016, 10:41pm

We’ve implemented option (b). If it’s empty we’ll just display “Image” on the box, but we won’t touch the raw content.

Erica · November 14, 2016, 1:31am

Update: this is now fixed in the latest version. Woohoo!